By Rachel Fiske/Life@Home We all have visions for our homes. Mine, since first venturing out on my own, has been immaculate cleanliness. I like things to have places — bowls neatly stacked in my kitchen, books coordinated by topic on shelves, socks tucked away tidily in my top bureau drawer. I like dust-free surfaces and […]
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By Betsy Bitner/Life@Home I should have planned better. A glance at the clock tells me I’m almost out of time. Our babysitter would be here in minutes and to make matters worse, she’s new. I much prefer babysitters who’ve been broken in. They already know all the necessary stuff about our family and, more importantly, about […]
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By Larissa Lytwyn/Life@Home I once lived in part of a multi-family home, a yawning, hundred-year-old house with hardwood floors and an exterior painted Pepto-Bismol pink. I preferred calling it rose-colored, but everyone else dubbed it “distinctive.” My penchant for those rose-colored glasses was now a need; my longtime boyfriend and I had split a few months […]
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By Jennifer E. O’Brien/Life@Home I grew up in a house where my father was always working on a project. By “project” I mean anything from painting a hallway, to building in his wood shop to the piece de resistance — raising the roof on our ranch and adding a second floor. By himself. At the time […]
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By Rachel Fiske/Life@Home Somewhere along the way, Christmas lost its luster. Don’t get me wrong — it’s always been fun. I still relished the baking and the decorations, the annual hunt for the perfect tree as snow crunched beneath my feet, the quest for just-right gifts for those I love. It’s just that as the […]
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By Alleen Vincent-Barwood/Life@Home I view the North Country’s September and October months as a special show. Across the land spill colors so bright and clear the whole countryside appears drenched in color. Trees glow, late flowers shimmer, lakes sparkle, ponds glisten and rivers shine in air as crisp and tart as an Empire apple. Birds call, […]
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By Larissa Lytwyn/Life@Home It’s no surprise that the word “hearth,” meaning, quite literally, a burning place, is often paired with the word “home.” Just as “home is where the heart is,” the mention of home and hearth is evocative of all things cozy and familiar. For me, home and hearth is reminiscent of the wood […]
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